Posts by Dan 55

Re: If they are attacking Apple for not allowing Chrome

And if you like all the new web capabilities but you loathe Google, you can use Edge instead. Or Opera. Or Brave. You have a *choice*.

If you loathe Blink, you can use Blink, Blink, or Blink.

Re: No moving targets

It's like every other squiggle-bracket language descended from B (i.e. BCPL, C, Java, D, Rust, etc...).

Re: No moving targets

You don't have to use all at once. C++ is backwards compatible, you can bring in any feature from the past couple of decades or none at all.

Re: I like Debian, but it has its own share of a*holes too.

No, they put more restrictions on distribution than the GPL does. I thought you were in favour of the BSD licence?

You can't argue in favour of the BSD licence and Mozilla's actions.

Re: Fighting the wrong people in the wrong place

And how do you expect an FOSS OS to talk to black-box hardware where no drivers are made available by the manufacturer?

Re: I like Debian, but it has its own share of a*holes too.

But it seemed from Mozilla's response that Debian owed Mozilla a living. This is also not true.

Happily an understanding was reached, but it took about a decade.

Re: I like Debian, but it has its own share of a*holes too.

The only difference between FOSS and propriety is you don't see the e-mail chain detailing the colliding egos, but you can still see them in the changes made with each major release.

Re: Fighting the wrong people in the wrong place

If you just want a (mostly) working computer and aren't interested in why component manufacturers don't distribute code or drivers to OS developers except MS and Apple then just keep the default Windows 11 install and be happy. You're obviously not the target audience for an open source OS.

Re: I like Debian, but it has its own share of a*holes too.

At that time, Debian did not include the Firefox logo as it was not re-distributable (trademarked by Mozilla). Therefore they changed the logo for another one. Mozilla didn't like this and told them to distributing Firefox without its logo and to submit all changes made to the codebase to Mozilla for approval, so Debian changed the name of the browser as well.

But this issue has been resolved for several years now.

Re: Fighting the wrong people in the wrong place

How the BSD licence help fix the problem with closed firmware blobs? All it does is allow the manufacturer to copy open-source BSD-licensed code and paste it in to the propriety code and then not distribute anything. How's that going to help the device work with an open-source OS (Linux, BSD, or anything else)?

Practically all Basics tokenised keywords into one byte. Single key entry might have reduced code size in the ZX80's 4K ROM where every byte mattered but by the time it got to the Spectrum's 16K ROM it was a bit silly... although if you wanted to learn to program having all the keywords in front of you and the computer syntax checking everything when you hit enter helped.

I think AmigaBasic was ditched after 1.3 (i.e. in 2.0) but on the other hand they included ARexx in 2.0 which was pretty good, especially to programmatically control software.

Re: However

Is running Linux in a VM a use case the readership of this website could be interested in? Yes.

Does this laptop choke on it while others don't? Yes.

Don't see the bias.

Re: Nonsense comments

"the user shouts a lot, and appears to have problems with 2 dogs barking which might make it harder to understand him when un-muted".

And:

Telemetry is NOT "we are recording your audio and sending it to the bad guys".

That Mitchell and Webb Look - Are we the baddies?.mp4

Holding recordings of conferences to find out if it's picking up dogs barking is a no no. Servers can be owned, recordings can be downloaded by blackhats and security agencies. Cisco are just going to do it the old fashioned way and eat their own dogfood, and that way they'll have more control over recording conditions anyway (who knows why it's picking up dogs barking in the background in random stored recordings, perhaps the caller works in an animal sanctuary and it's working as expected).

Re: technical feasability

The first time they used a centralised contact match server with phone ID, location, and Bluetooth and it couldn't run in the background on iPhones and hammered the battery on Android.

Then they tried again with the Apple/Google contract tracing API.

The second time, they wanted to collect QR codes at venues in the same track and trace app, which was location data, so it wasn't approved by either Apple or Google.

Re: Perfect timing

Clearly you've not been reading or listening to the news recently or you'd know that being "non-dom" doesn't mean you don't pay taxes at all. You have to declare *where* you are domiciled for tax purposes. That makes it harder to avoid the taxes where you *are* domiciled.

I didn't say that at all. Please re-read.

Then read this:

How the UK’s non-dom status works

And to spell it out, you are a UK tax resident, you declare you wish to avail yourself of non-domiciled status, offer supporting evidence (e.g. you are from another country and intend to return, or you inherit this status from a parent - this is actually a thing).

You are still tax resident in the UK, from your home country's point of view (e.g. India) you are not tax resident.

You end up paying tax on your UK income to the UK, £30K/year for any and all worldwide income to the UK, and you don't pay inheritance tax to the UK.

She would pay tax on Indian earnings (if she has any) to India but that's it.

Now imagine she also has income in the Cayman Islands, just to choose somewhere random on the globe. Works out quite well, doesn't it?

The whole non-dom status was designed by the last Labor government (surprised?) to attract rich foreign people to live in this country without the fear of the tax authorities digging into their tax affairs to see whether there is a buck or two more to extract.

No, what Labour changed was charging £30K/year for non-domiciled status, it's been around for 200 years.

Re: Perfect timing

1. She is a billionaire, that requires a revenue stream.

2. Who says taxes are due in India? She is a UK resident, she is tax resident in the UK, and her status is "non-domiciled" - that doesn't mean she's an Indian tax resident. "Non-domiciled" is just a way of reducing a UK tax bill with a flimsy excuse, basically a hangover from the British empire that is still alive today.

Neither her or her husband has categorically stated there is income in India, they've only talked about "international income".

3. Seriously?

You are holding Linux to the Mac's standards as they were, not as they are now. A lot of frog boiling has happened and you probably don't even realise it... Compare present-day macOS with Snow Leopard or System 8/9 and you'll find present-day macOS is a mess.

Re: How about Quicken?

How about importing your Quicken files into HomeBank if GnuCash is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

Re: You have hit the Linux wall. Eventually nearly everyone does.

Mac's not that good either, take a look at some of what's been lost since Snow Leopard (still the bar by which all future versions of macOS are judged and found wanting).